A middle-aged Pan with monkey glandssuch was the hazy impression, if
any, of Havelock Ellis, until his Dance of Life expounded to thoughtful
English and U. S. youth a philosophy of love and joy founded upon sound
medico-psychological principles. The present biography condones the
popular success of Dance of Life since that work displays neither the
gamut of Ellis' scientific knowledge nor the depth of his philosophy of
beauty as reflected in his Affirmations, Sex in Relation to Society,
Little Essays of Love and Virtue, Impressions...